Stage 1 - Identify Desired Results

Establish Goals (MLR): (G)
Content Area: Social Studies
Standard Label: E.History
Standard: E2 Individual, Cultural, International, and Global Connections in History.
Grade Level Span: Grades 9-Diploma "The Early Modern World, 1450-1800"
Students understand historical aspects of unity and diversity in the United States and the world, including Native American communities.

What understandings are desired?

Students will understand that: (U)
• the French Revolution forever altered Europe.
• at times the French Revolution was in contradiction to itself.
• the French Revolution was backed by societal and cultural shifts.

What essential questions will be considered?

Essential Questions: (Q)
• How did the French Revolution affect Europe?
• How did the French Revolution progress and regress?
• Why did the societal and cultural shifts that occurred lead to a revolution?

What key knowledge and skills will students acquire as a result of this unit?


Students will know: (K)
Students will be able to: (S)
•People:
Maximilien Robespierre, Charles comte d'Artois, Jean Sylvain Bailly, Jacques Nicolas Billaud-Varenne, Napoleon Bonaparte, Georges Jacques Danton, Louis XV, Louis XVI, Jean-Paul Marat, Marie Antoinette, Jacques Necker, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Voltaire, Jean-Lambert Tallien, Pierre Victurnien Vergniaud, Paul François Jean Nicolas, Louis Alexandre Berthier.
•Definitions:
Tennis Court Oath, First Estate, Second Estate, Third Estate, Brunswick Manifesto, Girondins, Royalist, Sans-culottes, Herbertists, Jacobins.
•Sequences & Timeline:
Assembly of Notables, Estates General, National Assembly, Saint Domingue Revolt, Champ de Mars massacre, Legislative Assembly, National Convention, Vendee civil war, Committee of Public Safety, Directory, Brumaire Coup.
• describe the changes Europe underwent during the French Revolution.
• evaluate the sequence of events during the French Revolution.
• exhibit an understanding of the shifts that occurred within the French Revolution.
• compare and contrast pre and post revolutionized Europe.
• imagine the change in living conditions that resulted from the French Revolution.
• recognize the severity of the cultural and societal shifts that occurred before, during, and after the French Revolution.

2004 ASCD and Grant Wiggins and Jay McTighe.